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Business News | Taiwan Allocates NTD 27 Billion for 6G and LEO Satellite Push by 2030
Latestly
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July 11, 2025
Taipei [Taiwan], July 11 (ANI): The Cabinet of Taiwan approved a project worth NTD 27 billion for a tenure of six years, with an aim to launch 6G wireless commercial services by 2030, which will help in strengthening Taiwan's role in the...
Recall rallies to be held in Taipei, New Taipei City
Taipei Times
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July 4, 2025
Rallies supporting recall efforts targeting Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers as well as a rally organized by the KMT opposing the recall campaigns are to take place in Taipei today. Traffic controls were in place on Taipei City Hall Road...
Traffic controls to be in place in Taipei for pro-,anti-recall campaign rallies tomorrow
Taipei Times
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July 3, 2025
Traffic controls are to be in place in Taipei starting tonight, police said, as rallies supporting recall efforts targeting the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers as well as a rally organized by the KMT opposing the recall campaigns are to...
Islanders global release: Where to stream this Taiwanese drama?
India Times
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July 4, 2025
Taiwan is set to make another global splash in television with the release of Islanders, a gripping new drama arriving on July 18. Its worldwide rollout is a major step for Taiwanese content, becoming only the second series from the country -...
Taipei hotels distort media landscape
Taipei Times
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June 30, 2025
My youngest son attends a university in Taipei. Throughout the past two years, whenever I have brought him his luggage or picked him up for the end of a semester or the start of a break, I have stayed at a hotel near his campus. In doing so, I...
Taiwan shares end up on rotational buying
Focus Taiwan
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July 11, 2025
Taipei, July 11 (CNA) Shares in Taiwan closed higher Friday as rotational buying escalated, helping the broader market recoup its losses earlier in the session at a time of lingering concerns over the United States' arbitrary tariff threats,...
Golden Melody Awards 2025: Siri Lee, Trout Fresh, and ‘AAA’ Lead the Winners List in Taipei
Variety
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July 4, 2025
The 36th Golden Melody Awards took place earlier this week at Taipei Arena, spotlighting the evolving artistry and enduring power of Mandarin-language music. As one of the most significant honors in the Chinese-speaking world, this year’s ceremony...
Recording Academy President Panos A. Panay Talks Cross-Cultural Creativity at Taipei’s Golden Melody Festival: ‘Your Truth Is Your Superpower’
Variety
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July 4, 2025
At the 2025 Golden Melody Festival in Taipei, a conversation between Panos A. Panay, president of the Recording Academy (the organization behind the Grammys), and SXSW VP James Minor cut straight to the heart of where the global music industry is...
Taipei: Vice-President Hsiao followed in Prague. 'No to intimidation'
Asia News
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June 30, 2025
The Czech intelligence service's complaint against agents of the People's Republic of China, which denies the charges and speaks of “interference in internal affairs”. Meanwhile, today is the deadline for Chinese immigrants in Taiwan to prove that...
Army reservists simulate defense of key supplies in Han Kuang drills
Focus Taiwan
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July 11, 2025
Taipei, July 11 (CNA) Taiwan's annual Han Kuang military exercises entered their third day on Friday, with reservists from the Army's 206th Infantry Brigade simulating the defense of critical supplies against a Chinese attack on a logistics site...
Taiwanese Fishing Boat, Bangladeshi Vessel Collide in South China Sea
MENAFN
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June 30, 2025
(MENAFN) The Philippines announced on Wednesday that it dispatched a coast guard ship to assist two vessels involved in a collision within the contested South China Sea. The accident occurred Tuesday night near Ilocos Sur province in northern...
SPEAK UP: The 10 best buffets in Taipei (2/2) 台北最強10大吃到飽（下）
Taipei Times
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July 3, 2025
A: In your view, what are Taipei’s top buffet restaurants? B: Feastogether Group’s outlets — A Joy, Inparadise, Eatogether, Sunrise and Fruitful Food — are the runners-up. A: A Joy’s deluxe meal, priced at NT$3,880 per person plus a 10-percent...
SHI, Evergreen team up on VR dual fuel vessel seafarer training
Offshore Energy
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July 11, 2025
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has collaborated with Taiwanese container shipping company Evergreen to develop and install virtual reality (VR) solutions intended to teach seafarers how to operate green ships. Courtesy of...
Most Taiwanese oppose heavy motorcycles on freeways: bureau
Taipei Times
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July 2, 2025
A recent survey found that 60 percent of Taiwanese are opposed to allowing heavy motorcycles on national freeways, the Freeway Bureau said yesterday. The main concerns cited in the survey were the perceptions that motorcyclists do not follow...
Gamuda awards Hitachi Rail for Taipei MRT project
The Malaysian Star
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July 3, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR: Gamuda Bhd, the main contractor for the New Taipei City government’s Department of Rapid Transit Systems (NTCG DORTS), has awarded Hitachi Rail a contract to deliver its Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) system. The contract...
Taipei exhibition exposes China’s brutal oppression of Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Hongkongers
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 29, 2025
Taipei [Taiwan], June 29 (ANI): A week-long exhibition focusing on contemporary Tibetan history and the global advocacy of the Dalai Lama commenced on Saturday in Taipei, showcasing quotes and artworks that emphasise human rights and China's...
Taiwanese singer Waa Wei beats S’pore’s Tanya Chua to Best Female Mandarin Singer crown at Golden Melody Awards
The Straits Times
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June 29, 2025
Taiwanese singers Trout Fresh and Waa Wei pose with their Best Male and Female Mandarin Singer awards.PHOTO: EPA-EFE Taiwanese singer Waa Wei was crowned Best Female Mandarin Singer at the 36th edition of the Golden Melody Awards, which took place...
Hitachi wins Taipei CBTC contract
International Railway Journal
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July 3, 2025
The supplier will provide digital signalling for light rail projects. HITACHI Rail has won a contract to provide CBTC and a supervisory control and data acquisition (Scada) system for the under-construction 5.6km Xizhi - Donghu (Xidong) and 15.6km...
Taiwan's international carriers report new high in sales for H1
Focus Taiwan
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July 11, 2025
Taipei, July 11 (CNA) Four major international carriers in Taiwan have reported a new high in sales for the first half of this year on the back on a continued growing tourism market in the current summer vacation during the post COVID-19 era,...
Indigenous Taiwanese aims for stardom in US baseball
Nikkei Asia
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TAIPEI -- Jamey Storvick remembers the exact moment when he first laid eyes on Taiwanese baseball prospect Lin Sheng-en. Drawing on local contacts cultivated over 25 years as the island state's only full-time scout for the U.S. major leagues,...